winnow-media 0.5.0

Winnow your media library — organize photos and videos, detect duplicates, and keep the best copies.

Winnow

Winnow your media library — organize photos and videos, detect duplicates, and keep the best copies. Local-first, offline-capable, and designed as a greenfield rewrite of py-organizer.

Status

Pre-alpha. The published CLI is a skeleton: winnow, winnow --help, and winnow --version are the only user-facing commands today. Domain models, exception types, and CI are in place; scanning, deduplication, and organization workflows are tracked in open issues (see #2 for the parent epic).

Install

Requirements: Python 3.11+ and a package manager (uv recommended).

From PyPI

Use uv's project workflow so the dependency and command run from the same managed environment:

uv init winnow-demo
cd winnow-demo
uv add winnow-media
uv run winnow --version

Optional dependency groups (face, cv, ai-detect) are declared in pyproject.toml but not wired to features yet.

From source

git clone https://github.com/lgtm-hq/winnow.git
cd winnow
make setup    # uv sync --dev
uv run winnow --help

Usage

Only the commands below work in the current release. There are no media-processing subcommands yet.

uv run winnow              # prints version and points to --help
uv run winnow --help       # show available options
uv run winnow --version    # print package version

Example output:

$ uv run winnow
winnow 0.2.0 — use --help for commands.

$ uv run winnow --version
winnow, version 0.2.0

Planned usage (not implemented)

Future releases will add subcommands for scanning libraries, grouping duplicates, and applying organization rules. Shapes will follow the domain models in winnow/models/ and the API-first plan in ADR 0001. Do not expect the examples below to work today:

# PLANNED — not available yet
uv run winnow scan /path/to/photos
uv run winnow duplicates review
uv run winnow organize --dry-run

Features

Available now

• Skeleton CLI — Click entry point with --help and --version
• Domain models — Pydantic v2 models for media files, duplicates, pipeline steps, and configuration (winnow/models/)
• Exception hierarchy — structured errors with context (winnow/exceptions.py)
• Quality bar — lintro lint/format, 85% test coverage gate, multi-version CI

Roadmap

Winnow follows an API-first, CLI-first phasing plan:

Phase	Focus	Highlights
Now	Foundation	Models, CLI skeleton, CI/CD, ADRs
Phase 1	Core product	Scan, dedupe, and organize via CLI and API
Phase 2	Web UI	Presentation-only frontend over OpenAPI

Planned capabilities (not shipped):

• Scan local photo and video libraries with rich metadata extraction
• Detect duplicates via perceptual hashing and related signals
• Rank and keep the best copy; organize or quarantine the rest
• Local SQLite storage; no cloud dependency required
• OpenAPI schema as the stable integration surface for automation and UI

Track progress on the issue board and in the in-repo documentation.

Development

make setup          # install dev dependencies (uv sync --dev)
make lint           # uv run lintro chk
make fmt            # uv run lintro fmt
make test           # pytest with 85% coverage gate
make test-integration  # opt-in integration tests

See CONTRIBUTING.md for commit conventions, signed commits, and PR expectations.

Documentation

• Contributing
• Architecture ADRs
• Security policy
• Governance
• Changelog

License

MIT — see LICENSE.